This is an analysis of Morning Song Of Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Darling, my darling, my heart is on the wing,
It flies to thee this morning like a bird,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efefXdcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
  • Metre: 10110110101 0101010101 1101011110111 0111111101 0100110011101 0101000101 1111110010101 1101111111 0101110010101 1101101111 1011110101111 0101010111 0101011011101 1100010101 01000101010111 1111110100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

the, and